Stunning image shows the closest ever Einstein ring

The closest ever Einstein ring, picked up by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope ESA…

Largest radio jet seen yet in the early universe

Watch this video of the largest radio jet that astronomers have seen yet in the early…

Searching the entire sky for the secrets to our universe : NPR

NASA’s SPHEREx observatory undergoes testing in August 2024. The mission will make the first all-sky spectroscopic…

The Great Meteor Procession 112 years ago

Canadian artist Gustav Hahn painted his impression of what the 1913 Great Meteor Procession looked like.…

Are grooves on Uranus’ moon Ariel evidence for an ocean?

View larger. | NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft captured this view of Uranus’ moon Ariel on January…

Europa Clipper Tests its Star Tracker Navigation System

On October 14th, 2024, NASA’s Europa Clipper mission launched atop a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch…

Meet Quipu, the largest structure in the universe

The colored dots represent different superstructures out to 800 million light-years (250 megaparsecs) from Earth. The…

Starlink satellites reentering Earth’s atmosphere in increasing numbers, creating artificial meteor showers

Starlink satellites are re-entering Earth’s atmosphere in increasing numbers, producing artificial meteor showers visible in the…

The Local Interstellar Cloud: Characteristics and Significance

Map of the Local Interstellar Cloud and neighboring G-Cloud. About 1% of the Milky Way’s mass…

Why the Odds of an Asteroid Striking Earth in 2032 Keep Going Up (and Down)

Since December, astronomers have been carefully studying whether an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long…